IGERT: Intelligent Geosystems

该综合研究生教育和研究（IGERT）奖支持科罗拉多矿业学院的博士培训计划，以追求智能地球系统的综合研究和教育。研究生将接受培训，以增加实时，自适应，传感能力，以监测自然或工程土结构，如土坝，地下水系统，或土工工地（隧道，城市开挖，高速公路）；所采用的传感器网络将允许地质系统感知其环境，诊断其状况，并做出决策，以改进地质系统的管理、操作或目标。目标是推进“智能”地理系统的发展，同时教育和培训新一代能够在这一新兴跨学科领域有效运作的领导者。拟议的IGERT方案将对受训者采取跨学科和全面的方法。该IGERT奖项的主要组成部分包括：(1)建立多学科合作研究团队框架，促进智能地球系统概念的团队发展和跨学科创新；(2)领导力和团队合作发展计划，为工业界、学术界和政府培养下一代地球系统领导者；(3)辅修社会/环境伦理与政策的博士学位，以拓宽受训者对智能地球系统的社会、环境和政治方面的技术挑战的理解；(4)使用智能地球系统模块的自定进度跨学科技术课程；(5)在智能地球系统领域的政府实验室或行业实习。IGERT项目的这五个组成部分将培养具有多学科环境所需的强烈社会和环境意识的多样化、高技能的领导者。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research (IGERT) award supports a Ph.D. training program at the Colorado School of Mines to pursue integrative research and education in Intelligent Geosystems. Graduate students will be trained to add real time, adaptive, sensing capabilities to the monitoring of natural or engineered earth structures, e.g., an earth dam, a ground water system, or a geoconstruction site (tunneling, urban excavation, highway); the sensor networks employed will allow a geosystem to sense its environment, diagnose its condition, and make decisions to improve the management, operation, or objective of the geosystem. The goals are to advance the development of the "intelligent" geosystems while educating and training a new generation of leaders who are able to operate effectively in this emerging interdisciplinary area. The proposed IGERT program will institute an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to trainees. Key components of this IGERT award include: (1) a multi-disciplinary collaborative research team framework to foster team development and interdisciplinary innovation in intelligent geosystem concepts; (2) a leadership and teamwork development program to train the next generation of geosystem leaders for industry, academia and government; (3) a PhD minor in social/environmental ethics & policy to broaden trainee understanding beyond the technical challenges to the social, environmental and political aspects of intelligent geosystems; (4) a self-paced cross-disciplinary technical course using modules in intelligent geosystems; and (5) an internship with a government laboratory or industry in intelligent geosystems. These five components of this IGERT program will produce diverse, highly skilled leaders with the strong social and environmental awareness required in multidisciplinary environments. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.